Lesson 2: The Equation of a Line
Module 6: Linear Equations
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Lesson Assessment
Complete the lesson quiz posted under the Quizzes link to the left in moodle or under the Assess tab and ensure your work in your binder (course folder) is complete.
Project Connection **NOT ASSIGNED**
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Go to the Unit 4 Project and complete the Module 6: Lesson 2 portion of the project.
Going Beyond
Often in mathematics, it is essential to learn how to solve a problem using a strategy that is not necessarily the quickest way to the solution. The reason for this is because the selected strategy is the easiest to understand or makes use of those principles with which the learner might be most familiar.
When you are learning something new, what disadvantages are there in learning a shortcut immediately?
Once you understand how a process works, you may adapt the process to enable you to arrive at the answer more quickly or with less work.
In this lesson you learned to write linear equations when given either of the following:
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a slope and a point
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two points
In this section you will develop “shortcut” strategies for determining the equation of a line in slope-intercept form when certain information is known.
Complete the chart in the “Shortcut Strategies” activity. For each set of given information in the chart, there are two examples provided. Feel free to construct and analyze your own examples, as long as they also provide the same initial information.